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As we all know, Qi Baishi is a master of "poetry, calligraphy, painting and seal" in the history of modern art in China. He is good at painting flowers and birds, aquatic animals, landscapes, figures and other subjects. He has a high degree of freehand brushwork, but he is also good at meticulous painting. In particular, his meticulous brushwork of grass and insect flowers represents the highest achievement of his painting, and it is appropriate to evaluate it by "surpassing ancient and modern times".

Grass insect painting refers to a painting depicting insects. There is no special branch in the history of China painting, but it is attached to the category of "flowers, birds, fruits and vegetables". Attached to Volume 20 of Fruits and Vegetables in the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, in the history of painting in Tang and Song Dynasties, there has been a record that a painter was good at grasshoppers.

There are many works of grass insects in the small-scale paintings of the Song Dynasty, and the fineness of some meticulous grass insects is amazing.

Such as Lin Chun's "Grape Grass Fan",

But there are very few kinds of grass insects painted. In the late Qing Dynasty, Julian was a master of meticulous brushwork, and his "Wu Tong Shuang Chan" was beautifully painted. In Qi Baishi's works, there are not only many kinds of grass insects, but also the unique painting method of "taking work as a substitute for writing", which transcends the predecessors and makes the grass insect painting reach an unprecedented height.

I dabbled in grass worms before I was 30 years old.

Li jinxi, a friend of Qi Baishi who forgot the year, mentioned in the section of Chronicle of Qi Baishi 1902: "Before Xin Chou (190 1), Baishi's paintings were mainly meticulous, and the grass insects had long been lifelike. Because his family has always raised grass insects-weaver girls, grasshoppers, locusts and other creatures, he often pays attention to its characteristics and does sketch exercises directly. It is natural and vivid for a long time. " It can be seen that Qi Baishi began to draw grasshoppers before he was in his thirties.

In "The Old Man's Self-report", Qi Baishi himself recalled: "At that time, your brothers Zhong Ge and Zhong Mai were less than 20 years old. Summer vacation, often accompany me, lively and lovely. I saw them flapping butterflies, catching dragonflies and catching cicadas, and they all painted specimens for me. "

At present, Qi Baishi's earliest grass insect painting is 1894' s Moth of Leaves of Grass, which belongs to the "three hundred lithographs rich man" and is a typical golden farmer style. The seal is also a common seal of the early "Muju Stone". In addition, in 1902, the "flower cricket" round fan painted by Qinyuan Ernai is very detailed, and the flower painting is boneless. The flowers in this period are mostly meticulous and the colors are not bright. Some paintings are inscribed with the style of Jin Nong, which is obviously Qi Baishi's early grass and insect painting style.

1920 Before the political reform, Qi Baishi once painted a freehand brushwork of grass insects and flowers with the cool and easy painting method of Badashan people, and composed Shu Lang with pure ink, but it was not popular at that time, and then he basically gave up.

There are many descriptions of insects sketching in Qi Baishi's paintings. For example, the Liaoning Museum has 19 19 Weaver Girl, with the caption: "I borrowed it from the Mountain Museum, and I didn't get this bug in 10. The world calls it a spinning girl or a spinning girl, which is a portrayal of ants. " 1922, Qi Baishi wrote a long question: "I am old in the world and young in the world, and I don't like painting. I don't think it is enough to be satisfied with the work of craftsmen, not careless. " I have been studying painting for 50 years. When I was 40 years old, I played catch live worms and caught 7 worms. I will be 60 years old. Mr Chen Bao will see it and want to stay. Only those who know it, my brother will remember it. In another title, Long-horned Pea, he wrote: "Painters have always said that painting people does not draw hands, and I said that it is not easy to draw insect feet. You can't have such a job unless you catch insects and draw sketches. "

When did Qi Baishi's grass insect painting, written by a migrant worker, begin to change and form?

Let's look at the fan of Bee painted by Xin Younian (192 1). The picture shows 10 bees with different shapes, and the flowers are neither bright nor prominent.

In the same year 1924 painted litchi longevity, although the pen and ink are a bit stiff, the style of writing with the word "work" instead of "word" has begun to take shape.

In the mid-1920s, Qi Baishi's painting style began to undergo great changes. After absorbing the painting method of Wu Changshuo Shanghai epigraphy, he made his own personal changes to make the colors more colorful. At this time, he was welcomed by the market with his combination of freehand brushwork flowers and meticulous brushwork, and his painting style was novel and unique.

The species of grass insects painted by Qi Baishi in his life are very rich, as many as dozens. There are not only dragonflies, butterflies, cicadas, bees, slugs, grasshoppers, mantises, crickets, longicorn beetles, moths, moles, locusts, kitchen horses, spiders, midges, but even cockroaches and flies. In the past, it was difficult to draw dirty insects such as cockroaches and flies, but when Qi Baishi painted them, the viewer did not feel dirty, but painted them vividly and naturally.

Of course, Qi Baishi also painted those beautiful insects. What he painted most were butterflies, dragonflies, cicadas and bees. He painted litchi dragonflies, wild red butterflies, maple leaves, Qiu Chan, vines and bees, which were pleasing to the eye. Guo Guo, grasshopper, mantis and cricket are also his favorite paintings. He painted gourds, impatiens grasshoppers, rice mantis, and bean-stem cricket, which had a strong flavor of life.

When did Qi Baishi stop painting meticulous grass worms?

He wrote in a book "Grass Worm" in the 1920s: "If a guest asks a painter to make a worm, his eyes are blurred, so I will stop writing." In another painting, Workers, Peasants and Insects old boys, Qi Baishi wrote an inscription: "The old man in Pingtang insisted on holding a fine pen", indicating that there were not many meticulous brushwork of grass insects by the old man in this period. However, we can see that in the 1930s and 1940s, Qi Baishi had the meticulous brushwork of grass insects, and even after the founding of New China, individual meticulous brushwork of grass insects and flowers appeared, but the number was obviously reduced. Are these meticulous grasshoppers ghostwritten by others? Or the original of the old man Baishi himself?

With regard to these meticulous flower paintings of grass insects in the 1930s and 1950s, most of the academic circles think that Qi Baishi deliberately painted more meticulous grass insects in advance in order to prevent the poor eyesight of the elderly in his early years, and took them out to fill the flowers in the 1930s and 40s, thus forming his later works. This was confirmed in the inscription of a dragonfly morning glory painted by Qi Baishi for his female disciple Hu Jieqing in 1952. Qi Baishi wrote: "A young female disciple loves her old works and always adds flowers. 92-year-old Baishi. " At this time, Qi Baishi is 92 years old, so it is impossible to draw a delicate dragonfly. In the inscription, it is specifically pointed out that "the young girl disciple likes the old work", which shows that it is written by the old man Baishi, not someone else.

And he has poor eyesight, and he seldom draws or does not draw detailed grass insects. At the same time, Qi Baishi also painted many freehand brushwork grass insects, such as lotus dragonflies and cat butterflies. In the Book of Flowers, Plants and Insects painted by Northeast Museum 1954, he wrote in particular: "This book is like three sons painting insects, and the old man fills flowers and plants with white stones, writing money." During this period, Qi Baishi once asked his third son, Qi Ziru, to write a ghost, but the seal of "Purple as a Flower Insect" in the painting was only a cooperative painting.

It is rumored that some meticulous weeds in Qi Baishi's later years were painted by Qi Ziru, so it is difficult to draw a conclusion. Qi Ziru is the first famous of Qi Baishi's children, especially his meticulous Cao Meng painting. His paintings of dragonflies, slugs, mantises, cicadas and grasshoppers are lifelike. Qi Baishi once wrote on a small album page: "If a child is like a painting bug, he can learn from it. Painting bugs is too meritorious." Qi Ziru's grasshoppers have many praises.

Qi Baishi also has some meticulous grass insects that have no freehand brushwork flowers, but exist as independent works in the form of grass insects alone.

Qi Baishi wrote a long postscript on the opening page of one of the pages to illustrate this point: "This book has 20 volumes, all painted by Baishi. There is no need to add flowers and plants in the future, but it is most suitable to open an insect here. The author of The West Chamber said there was no need to continue, but some good people continued, and the result was ugly. Jia Shenqiu is 84-year-old Baishi. " Although there is only one grass bug in this independent grass bug painting, it is naturally a complete work because there are books and seals. There are also some grass insects painted by Qi Baishi in Beijing Painting Academy. They have no money or seals. After Qi Baishi died, his family donated them to Beijing Painting Academy. Of course, these paintings are also recognized as the original works of Qi Baishi.

Qi Baishi's meticulous painting of grass insects is warmly sought after by collectors because of its originality of "combining work with writing", and has repeatedly performed well in auctions in recent years. As early as 2009, Qi Baishi's book "It's a pity that it's silent" sold for a high price of 95.2 million yuan.

In the autumn auctions of 20 15 and 12, Qi Baishi's Ye Yin Wensheng, Flowers, Fine brushwork and Insect was once again auctioned at a sky-high price of 65,438+150,000 yuan.

It is precisely because of the hot market that a large number of fake flowers have appeared, many of which have been auctioned at high prices. For example, a high-priced album, the book is stiff and the grass is plain, and the composition is not Qi Baishi's usual composition, but it was taken at a high price. At present, Qi Baishi's paintings of grass insects and flowers at the auction site are not only works before the early 1920s, but also works from the 1930s and 40s, which can be described as varied. Buyers should be on high alert to avoid being cheated.